Introduction: A New View of Organizational Design

Massimo G. Colombo and Marco Delmastro
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Massimo G. Colombo: Politecnico di Milano

A chapter in The Economics of Organizational Design, 2008, pp 1-22 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Statements like this are rather common in works on the organization that mix real facts based on anecdotal business evidence and case studies with conceptual and theoretical insights. It is our opinion that this popular approach though fruitful, suffers from a serious methodological weakness in that it fails to provide a generalizable framework for the study of organizational design. In fact, its conclusions are limited by some general caveats.

Keywords: Chief Executive Officer; Middle Manager; Decision Authority; Organization Science; Private Benefit (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230582200_1

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